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And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.